{"id":619,"date":"2013-05-08T15:48:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T22:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=619"},"modified":"2013-05-08T15:50:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T22:50:11","slug":"more-tester-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/more-tester-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"More Tester Exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days ago, I began a verbal exploration of testers who code and coders who test. That post<\/a> provides some context for today\u2019s continuation, so if you have a moment, go ahead and check it out.<\/p>\n

OK \u2013 I know you didn\u2019t read it (or you read it already), so I\u2019ll give you the summary. There are coders, testers, coders who test, testers who code, and many variations in between. If it\u2019s good for a coder to have some test knowledge, it certainly can\u2019t hurt to have some knowledge of code if you\u2019re a tester. My contrived exercises asked you to consider what mix of testing and coding knowledge you\u2019d pick when staffing a team. The spectrum of awareness and infusion of coding and testing skills looks a bit like this:<\/p>\n

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But that\u2019s not (as some of you pointed out) the full picture. I know fantastic testers with tons of experience and the ability to find the the most important issues quickly and efficiently \u2013 but they\u2019re jerks (and that\u2019s putting it nicely). It doesn\u2019t matter how awesome you are, if you\u2019re a horrible teammate, I don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

it\u2019s been 35 years or so since I played any paper based role playing games, but when I did, we had these \u201ccharacter sheets\u201d where we kept track of our characters stats and experience. Something like that would give a lot better picture of the full picture of a good software developer.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not perfect, but it helps to see the big picture (and I\u2019ll be the first to admit, it\u2019s difficult, if not impossible, to measure people on a scale like this) \u2013 but as a leader<\/em>, you can certainly consider the type of people you want on your team. You can\u2019t just hire the first code-monkey (or \u201cbreaker\u201d) you find and expect to have all of your problems solved. When I make hiring decisions, those decisions are based an itty-bitty bit on whether the candidate can do the job, quite a bit more on how they will fit in with the team, and a whole lot on how well I think they\u2019ll be able to help the team months and years down the line.<\/p>\n

And with that, the intro to this blog post has turned into an interlude, so I\u2019ll wrap this up later this week. Great discussion so far (in comments, twitter, and email) \u2013 please keep it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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